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Knox County · year in review

Board of Commissioners — 2026

What the body did on the record in 2026 — every figure a mechanical count over the published minutes, each linking to the exact rows it summarizes. This is a breakdown of the record, not a score or a grade. As of the meeting of August 31, 2026 — the newest published record.

Excludes 13 motions not yet published.

18

meetings held

481

recorded decisions →

328/412

unanimous, of 412 adopted (80% unanimity rate) →

81

split votes →

42/481

deferred, of 481 decisions (9% deferral rate) →

15

failed →

Topics most voted on

Biggest split votes

The year’s most divided decisions — the closest winning margins (|aye − no|). Each links to its full roll call.

How these are counted

Every figure is a deterministic count over the Knox County, TN Board of Commissioners’s published motions on meetings held in 2026 — the same records behind the vote browser each card links to. Nothing here is a composite score, a grade, or a ranking.

  • Unanimity rate = adopted motions with at least one aye and no dissent or abstention, divided by all adopted motions. Shown as a percentage only when there are at least 10 adopted motions.
  • Deferral rate = motions disposed as deferred, divided by all recorded decisions in the year. Shown as a percentage only at or above 10 decisions.
  • Topics most voted on counts each decision under every neutral topic its agenda items carry (primary and secondary tags alike); procedural items are excluded, as in the default vote browser.
  • Biggest split votes are decided (adopted or failed) contested motions ordered by the smallest winning margin |aye−no| first — the most divided decisions.

The general pipeline (sources, extraction, gates, review) is on the methodology page. Compare this body with others on the cross-body comparison.